Class X English First Flight

Class X  Question Bank

First Flight 

From The Diary of Anne Frank

Question 1: What makes writing in a diary a strange experience for Anne Frank?

Answer: Writing a diary is a strange experience for Anne Frank because of two reasons. The first reason is she has not written anything before. The second reason is the apparent disinterest which most of the people would show in musings of a thirteen year old girl.

Question 2: Why does Anne want to keep a diary?

Answer: She needs someone with whom she could share her feelings and sufferings. She also feels that paper as more patience than paper. Anne Frank is also searching for a friend in the form of her diary. Hence, she wants to keep a diary and to give it a personal touch she named it kitty.

Question 2: What tells you that Anne loved her grandmother?

Answer: Her statement, that no one could understand her intensity of love for her grandma tells that she loved her grandmother. Moreover, her gesture of lighting up one candle for grandmother on her birthday  also shows her  love for grandma.

Question: Why does Anne provide a brief sketch of her life?

Answer: A good introduction helps drawing reader’s attention to the topic. Moreover, it gives background information about the topic. By providing brief sketch of her life, Anne gives an overview of her family, her relatives, and her age. This helps the reader to develop connect with the author.

Question 3: How does Anne feel about her father, her grandmother, Mrs Kuperus and Mr Keesing? What do these tell you about her?

Answer: Anne has fond memories of her father, her grandmother, Mrs. Kuprus and Mr. Keesing. These persons had left indelible impressions on her mind. The way she tells about these person reveal that Anne was very good at understanding people and at developing interpersonal relations.

Question 4: What does Anne write in her first essay?

Answer: In her first essay on “Chatterbox”, Anne wrote about the reasons of her being a chatterbox. In the essay; she accepted the drawbacks of being a talkative person but she was also frank enough to admit that it was difficult for her to give up the habit.

Question 5: Anne says teachers are most unpredictable. Is Mr Keesing unpredictable? How?

Answer: Mr. Kessing appears to be unpredictable; as Anne had said. No reaction by Mr Kessing after the second essay is a pointer to unpredictability. Even the reaction after the third essay shows unpredictability because Mr. Keesing’sbehavior was altogether different than what he earlier did.